Solo Art SACD-115

David Thomas Roberts
New Orleans Streets 1981-1985

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New Orleans Streets is a fifteen-sectioned suite for piano. Featuring elements of ragtime, Latin American music, early jazz, Romantic piano music, rhythm and blues/early rock 'n' roll, hymnology, country material and music associated with the Mediterranean, it is a summary of the musical informants having the greatest impact on my early life. Consisting of ten street-sections and five miscellaneous sections, the suite is obliquely narrative.

These literal guidelines encourage only the most pale expectations of what will follow....

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Personnel

David Thomas Roberts piano

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Selections

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Decatur Street
• 3 Burgundy Street
• 4 Franklin Avenue
• 5 Jackson Avenue
• 6 Waltz
• 7 Napoleon Avenue
• 8 Magazine Street
• 9 Toulouse Street
• 10 Annunciation Street
• 11 Broad Avenue
• 12 Interlude
• 13 Fontainebleau Drive
• 14 Revenge
• 15 Farewell

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All compositions by David Thomas Roberts
Production Coordinator: Jon P. Pult
Year Released: 1992

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